MRI Findings in Cerebral Infarction and Relationship between Lesion Volume and Neurological Damage and Prognosis
Objective To explore the findings of magnetic resonance imaging(MRI)in patients with cerebral infarction and analyze the relationship between lesion volume and neurological damage and prognosis.Methods A total of 297 patients with cerebral infarction admitted to the hospital from January 2019 to September 2022 according to the exclusion criteria were included in the study.All included patients were with less than 48h from onset to MRI.The MRI findings were analyzed,and MRI three-dimensional reconstruction was performed,and the lesion volume was calculated according to the Dotian formula,and Pearson correlation was used to analyze the correlation between lesion volume and neurological damage[the National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale(NIHSS)],and receiver operating characteristic(ROC)curve was drawn to analyze the predictive value of lesion volume on prognosis.Results 117 patients were in the hyperacute phase at MRI and no abnormalities were observed in conventional MRI scan,and they showed high signal in diffusion weighted imaging(DWI),low signal in apparent diffusion coefficient(ADC)and low perfusion in perfusion-weighted imaging(PWI).And another 180 cases in acute phase showed T1WI low signal and T2WI high signal in conventional MRI scan,high signal in fluid-attenuated inversion recovery sequence(FLAIR)and DWI and low signal in ADC.Lesion volume of patients with cerebral infarction was significantly positively correlated with NIHSS score(r=0.595,P<0.01),and the area under the curve of lesion volume was 0.821(95%Cl:0.760~0.882)in predicting poor prognosis in patients with cerebral infarction,and the sensitivity and specificity were 79.10%and 85.30%when 8.467mm3 was taken as critical value.Conclusion The MRI findings of patients with cerebral infarction may be different due to the course of disease,and the lesion volume measured by MRI three-dimensional reconstruction is closely related to neurological damage and has certain predictive value on prognosis,which is worthy of clinical attention.